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    <center>Scilab Function</center>
    <div align="right">Last update : April 1993</div>
    <p>
      <b>rowcompr</b> -  row compression of polynomial matrix</p>
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        <tt>[X,rk,Ac]=rowcompr(A)  </tt>
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        <tt>
          <b>A</b>
        </tt>: polynomial matrix</li>
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        <tt>
          <b>Y</b>
        </tt>: square polynomial matrix (left unimodular basis)</li>
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        <tt>
          <b>rk</b>
        </tt>: normal rank of <tt>
          <b>A</b>
        </tt>
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          <b>Ac</b>
        </tt>: <tt>
          <b>Ac=X*A</b>
        </tt>, polynomial matrix</li>
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      <font color="blue">Description</font>
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    row compression of polynomial matrix <tt>
        <b>A</b>
      </tt>.</p>
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        <b>X</b>
      </tt> is a left polynomial unimodular basis which row compressed
    thee rows of <tt>
        <b>A</b>
      </tt>. <tt>
        <b>rk</b>
      </tt> is the normal rank of A.</p>
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    Warning: elimination of "small" terms (use with care!).</p>
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      <font color="blue">See Also</font>
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    <p>
      <a href="colcompr.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>colcompr</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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